The Embodied Psyche

An Intersectional Feminist Psychotherapy
Two-Year Postgraduate Training Program
2025-2027

This page is currently under construction. More information is coming soon about the postgraduate program! Here is an overall description of our program. If interested, please join our mailing list here.

Our decades of experience reading the body in multiple and complex ways has evolved a theory and practice that widens and deepens our understanding of how psyche, soma and institutionalized power relations construct our psychologies. We see the body as the living vital center of feelings and experience and as a canvas where power relations, multiple forms of control, creative expression and protest are taken up and expressed. WTCI’s two-year program educates postgraduate clinicians from a trans-inclusive feminist relational perspective.

It is our top priority, and an ongoing one, to center academic content around issues of class, race and gender, the experiences of underrepresented voices. We have developed a theoretical guideline for practice informed by our commitment to social justice, with a deep understanding of how the personal is political and how that enters the consultation room. Our overall mission and thus the mission of the training program is to amplify an intersectional feminist voice in the evolving dialogue of contemporary relational theory.

CONTACT

training-program@wtci-nyc.org

LOCATION

Online (2022-2024)
from New York, NY

PROGRAM POLICIES

More information to come!

previous 2022-2024 FACULTY

Ruchi Amin, LCSW
Linda Arbus, LCSW
Barbara Buloff, LCSW
Eve Blatt, LCSW-R
Barbara Buloff, LCSW, ACSW
Joanne Clark, LCSW
Kathy Conway, Ph.D., LCSW
Suzanne Daly, LCSW, DSW
Andrea Gitter, MA, LCAT, BC-DMT
Susan Gutwill, MS, LCSW

Laura Kogel, LCSW, ACSW
Leah Kramnick, LCSW-R
Debbie Liner, Ph.D.
Joanne Messina, LCSW-R
Wendy Miller, Ph.D.
Julie Nemeth, Ph.D.
Rebecca Stern, LCSW
Anne L. Wennerstrand, LCSW-R
Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW

TRAINING PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Previous 2022-2024 Curriculum

Subject to change

First Year

Social Constructivism and Social Justice: Possibilities Disrupted
A Social Model of Privilege and Oppression  
Capitalism and Racism: “Conjoint Twins”  

Object Relations and Feminist Relational Theory
Introduction to Object Relations   
Patriarchy, Capitalism, Race, the Internalization of Culture 
Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory    
Colloquium 1
Somatic Cognition: The Visual Body and the Visceral Body
Reading the Body: Movement Signatures and Somatic Temperaments
Somatic Countertransference: Bringing the Therapist’s Body into the Room

Marginalized Bodies
Transgender Theory & Clinical Practice
Fat Bodies   
Intersectionality & Disability: Reclaiming Narratives on the Mind, Body & Personal History
Colloquium 2

Second Year

Eating, Food, Feeding and The Body, Trauma, and Self States
Hunger, Food & Satiation  
Experiential Group
Substances and Harm Reduction
Trauma & Attachment
Intergenerational Transmission
Sex: Cultural factors that impact how we experience and think about our Sexuality
Colloquium 3
Introduction to Neurobiology & Internal Family Systems

Gender Oppression and Fighting Back
Gendered Violence
Hormones
Honoring Our Voices and Creativity

Adolescence, Illness, Aging and Endings
Adolescence and the Culture    
Illness & Body Narratives   
Attuned Aging: Moving Beyond Cultural Expectations   
Colloquium 4

WTCI ASSOCIATION — FOR ALUMNI

The WTCI Alumni Association is an inclusive group for graduates and faculty of The WTCI. Together we explore the intersection of psychoanalysis, gender, race, culture, class, religion, and LGBTQ issues through readings, discussions, committee work, media, and social activities. We gather three times a year for presentations by members of our own community or to learn from an invited guest. One of these meetings focuses on a book chosen as the Summer Read.

Our smaller working committees—made up of WTCI Alumni Association members—include the Academic, Activist, Diversity, 6-week Eating & Embodiment, Online Seminar, and Program committees.

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